Cass County, Illinois
E444738
Cass County, Illinois is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities along the Illinois River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cass County, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630898 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cass County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Cass County, Illinois]
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A.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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B.
Stephenson County, Illinois
Stephenson County, Illinois is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns such as Cedarville, and its county seat of Freeport.
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C.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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D.
Macon County, Illinois
Macon County, Illinois is a largely agricultural county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose county seat and largest city is Decatur.
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E.
Carroll County, Illinois
Carroll County, Illinois is a rural county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cass County, Illinois Target entity description: Cass County, Illinois is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities along the Illinois River.
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A.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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B.
Stephenson County, Illinois
Stephenson County, Illinois is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns such as Cedarville, and its county seat of Freeport.
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C.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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D.
Macon County, Illinois
Macon County, Illinois is a largely agricultural county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose county seat and largest city is Decatur.
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E.
Carroll County, Illinois
Carroll County, Illinois is a rural county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Brown County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mason County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Menard County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgan County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Schuyler County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains | Illinois River floodplain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Virginia, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural
ⓘ
rural ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCountySeatFunction | local administration ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
riverfront areas
ⓘ
small rural communities ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17017 ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 04286740 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasJudicialCircuit | Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
livestock farming
ⓘ
row-crop farming ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSector | agricultural production ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Arenzville, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashland, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Beardstown, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Bluff Springs, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Chandlerville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Indian, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Snyders, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Midwest ⓘ |
| largestCity | Beardstown, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInCongressionalDistrict | Illinois's 18th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lewis Cass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedByRiver | Illinois River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cass County, Illinois Description of subject: Cass County, Illinois is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities along the Illinois River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.